Who says compact cameras are lifeless? Well, the market does, truly; the cell phone has all however killed off the class altogether, so it’s attention-grabbing to see Canon take one other stab on the market. The PowerShot collection of cameras as we speak gained its latest member of the family, the V10.
The foremost query this product has to overcome is “why not just use your phone,” and the digicam nerd in me is relieved to have a superb reply: Phone cameras are nice, however they’ve to be small. With that restriction eliminated, Canon can do what Canon does finest: construct cameras. On paper, the little digicam appears nice; it’s constructed round a one-inch CMOS sensor. That alone is an enormous deal; telephone cameras are getting adequate now that we’re proper on the fringe of what physics can do for us: Sensors get sizzling, and with all these pixels packed right into a tiny house, and limitations on how good and exact lenses may be, you’re butting up towards the sensible most picture high quality you will get.
If you need to get higher from there, you want to add smarts (i.e. picture processing enhancements, which is more and more AI-powered), or shift to larger sensors. Canon’s PowerShot V10 treats us to each: It has 14 built-in colour filters and “Smooth Skin” mode to provide help to look your finest.
The sturdy vertical physique is a wholly new design for Canon — and it makes a variety of sense in a world the place these cameras are extra doubtless to be positioned someplace to movie your self, than hand-held and taking pictures. Which is a further level: Smartphone cameras are getting nice, however a variety of this sort of content material is filmed with the selfie digicam, which is usually decrease decision and high quality than the rear-facing cameras. Canon’s V10 resolves that by making the display flippable, and also you get the most effective of each worlds: full-quality digicam and a preview to body your shot.
Canon’s latest helps make it potential to shoot in each vertical and horizontal orientations, matching the assorted social media platforms. If you’re wanting to use the digicam as a webcam, streaming cam or content material manufacturing cam, it has you coated, whether or not you’re taking pictures for YouTube, TikTok or — a favourite amongst dwelling cooks — OnlyPans. Whatever else the cool children are doing with their video, Canon hopes it could win of us over.
The digicam contains two high-quality stereo microphones, and a 3rd microphone added to support noise discount. It additionally connects with the Canon Camera Connect app to switch movies over Wi-Fi (no extra messing about with reminiscence playing cards!) and the digicam has USB ports to simply switch to a pc at larger speeds, or to be used as an online cam.
The V10’s adjustable stand means you don’t have a lug a tripod with you all over the place. Neat! Image Credits: Canon
For these on the go, the digicam prices over USB-C, which is a pleasant perk, and it has a built-in stand that makes it straightforward to tilt the digicam up to 30 levels. Genius; it’s as if digicam producers lastly realized that not all people is as excited as I’m to purchase tripods in all weights and sizes.
The Canon PowerShot V10 may be bought as a part of two completely different bundles. The commonplace equipment features a energy cable, delicate case, lens cap, windshield and wrist strap. For those that need extra inventive choices, a sophisticated equipment features a cage that can be utilized to connect extra lighting choices or maintain exterior microphones, and so forth.
Starting at $429, the digicam is well-priced to be positioned as cheaper and higher than a smartphone and a stepping stone on the best way up to a full-size interchangeable lens digicam.
Canon produced a video to present the way it all works, alongside with some pattern footage from the digicam: